Facebook Goes the Twitter Way

This seems to be a year of change for Facebook. After the vow to make Facebook a democratic nation, now the plan is to make the social networking website even more on-the-go. Facebook will now go the 'Twitter way' with a real-time update feature.

Using his standard mode of communication with the public, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has made a blog entry on the social networking site to let people know about the direction in which Facebook is heading.

The highlight of the change, which will be incorporated starting next week, is the new homepage. Like in Twitter, users will get to see updates from all their friends as they happen. Of course, there will also be an option to choose who users want to receive updates from, by editing their privacy settings.

Also, the "What are you doing right now?" feature, which tells others about a user's status, will be changed to "What are you thinking of?" -- a shift that will offer Facebook users a real-time experience emphasizing on 'now,' again similar to Twitter's tag "What are you doing?"